This month I’m proud to say that I’ve had a cover story published in Victoria’s largest circulation magazine, Royal Auto, that goes out to over two million RACV members monthly. It’s the first (but not the last, stay tuned) time I’ve been a contributor with them. The story is titled ‘Myths & Mountains’ and is…
“I pulled out my Instax, gestured to a woman with her children around her, and handed her out the print. Once she realised it was a picture of her family to keep, she held it to her chest with such joy. In that moment I remembered how much some of my own favourite family pictures…
Earlier in the year I was lucky enough to go on a media trip to Indonesia where I captured a great set of images in Jakarta, The Thousand Islands, Belitung Island and Bangka Island. A small set of those shots have just been featured in a new article written by the lovely Maria Visconti travel…
After more than 12 months since my epic adventure back to South America last year I’ve now posted a gallery of selected images from that continent on my website. They give a small taste of its inspiring lands and peoples. This previously unreleased image is of a family waiting for the bus in Copacabana, Bolivia.…
Amongst the hustle of packed streets and endless processions of dancers I came across this troupe of performers who said they were doing the ‘dance of the llama herders’. Don’t be confused, this flag represents the Aymaran people of western Bolivia, southern Peru and northern Chile. This is not a gay pride flag, though the…
The hordes of musicians and dancers continued to stream down the hill under the banner of Paceña, the beer from La Paz. Getting this close for the shot gave me a bit of an ear drubbing, but I think it was worth it. My eardrums have had worse anyway. I love the hands on this…
When festivities kicked off for a three-day fiesta in Copacabana it was immediately apparent that this was an event on a far higher scale compared to the two fiestas in Sorata and San Pedro that I had just attended. For starters this town was probably twenty times as large as Sorata, and the number of…
Before Copacabana’s fiesta kicked off I had time to do a few photo walks around town. In front of the basilica I met Daniela, a local abuelita that spent the fiesta selling candles to the faithful in the shade of the church gates. She was shy but agreed to let me photograph her. I chose…
I arrived in Copacabana to discover yet another multi-day fiesta was about to begin. This time on a scale far larger than anything I’d experienced in the small villages of Sorata and San Pedro. Though here I had a day to explore town and the shores of Lake Titicaca before events kicked off. I took…
The cars started to roll out from San Pedro late in the evening. Crowds of musicians and dancers fell out of their costumes in every direction. One by one they climbed aboard the tooting 4WDs and old Chevron pickups that sent dust floating across the valley. A few overloaded options rolled past before I flagged…
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